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Smart Campus: The roadmap of best-practice tips from the top IT education experts A smart campus enables everyone — from administrators to faculty to students — to engage with the entire educational experience anytime, anywhere. Explore the five critical keys to delivering a modern education experience .

For data scientists and business analysts who prepare data for analytics, data management technology from SAS acts like a data filter – providing a single platform that lets them access, cleanse, transform and structure data for any analytical purpose. As it
removes the drudgery of routine data preparation, it reveals sparkling clean data and adds value along the way. And that can lead to higher productivity, better decisions and greater agility.
SAS adheres to five data management best practices that support advanced analytics
and deeper insights:
• Simplify access to traditional and emerging data.
• Strengthen the data scientist’s arsenal with advanced analytics techniques.
• Scrub data to build quality into existing processes.
• Shape data using flexible manipulation techniques.
• Share metadata across data management and analytics domains.

Learn about the five gaps that could be costing you time, customers, and profit in this digital e-book. Discover how to close those gaps and transform your people, process, and technology to better serve your customer. You’ll also learn how to:
Create a unified view and deliver personalized experiences to your customers across all touchpoints and channels.
Provide actionable insights to your sales and marketing team so they can work together more effectively.
Bring intelligence to your data and connect it with content and processes, so you can make better, faster decisions.
Transform your business by connecting sales and marketing with a shared set of successful business practices.

In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion about how to engage patients in their care. Patient engagement has always been considered a good thing in practices and health care organizations. Today it is vital to the business of delivering care. This Whitepaper Outlines 5 elements of Launching a Successful Strategy.

This white paper will tell you how to implement a successful patient engagement strategy using these 5 elements:
1) Define your organization’s vision for patient engagement.
2) Create a culture of engagement.
3) Employ the right technology and services.
4) Empower patients to become collaborators in their care.
5) Chart progress and be ready to change and adapt.

Despite heavy, long-term investments in data management, data problems at many organizations continue to grow. One reason is that data has traditionally been perceived as just one aspect of a technology project; it has not been treated as a corporate asset. Consequently, the belief was that traditional application and database planning efforts were sufficient to address ongoing data issues.

We’ve all heard the phrase “you have to spend money to make money,” and while it may be accurate to some extent, businesses also have to keep a close eye on their budgets. As you establish your technology allowance and evaluate tools to help grow your business, consider these five items as absolute essentials.

Growing organizations have different hiring needs than companies in low growth mode. Companies that plan to grow must consider their recruitment technology and how it will impact their ability to scale. When businesses start to expand, they are often required to change many of their recruiting and talent acquisition practices. Typically, emerging companies find themselves unprepared when it comes to increasing workforce changes. The solution: Implementing Talent Acquisition Software to streamline all hiring needs.

In order for your organization to recruit and maintain top talent, you need modern, specialized recruitment technology that is designed to meet today's talent acquisition challenges. Learn what to look for when evaluating talent acquisition software in our free whitepaper.

Traditional remote access and meeting tools were not designed as remote support tools for helpdesks and IT professionals. LogMeIn consults daily with helpdesk and operations managers and here's what we've learned are the top five hidden costs of using legacy tools to provide remote support.

Brother conducted a series of interviews with value-added resellers (VARs) that work closely with businesses to select the right technology solutions. These VARs have a unique understanding of how IT professionals think; as a result, they have witnessed many missteps that have led to “less than optimal” IT technology integrations. What follows are five common - yet significant - mistakes identified during these discussions.

40% of Skype for Business customers are now using the platform for voice communication, and many of these customers are now considering complementing the deployment with or shifting to Microsoft’s cloud suite, Office 365.
When migrating to Office 365 cloud voice, customers should evaluate whether their existing audio devices are compatible or whether new technology will be needed. If you’re thinking about making the switch to cloud voice, download the report for the 5 Key Considerations when Choosing Technology for Use with Office. 365.

When migrating to Office 365 cloud voice, customers should evaluate whether their existing audio devices are compatible or whether new technology will be needed. If you’re thinking about making the switch to cloud voice, make sure to download this white paper.

"40% of Skype for Business customers are now using the platform for voice communication, and many of these customers are now considering complementing the deployment with or shifting to Microsoft’s cloud suite, Office 365.
When migrating to Office 365 cloud voice, customers should evaluate whether their existing audio devices are compatible or whether new technology will be needed. If you’re thinking about making the switch to cloud voice, download the report for the 5 Key Considerations when Choosing Technology for Use with Office. 365.
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40% of Skype for Business customers are now using the platform for voice communication, and many of these customers are now considering complementing the deployment with or shifting to Microsoft’s cloud suite, Office 365.
When migrating to Office 365 cloud voice, customers should evaluate whether their existing audio devices are compatible or whether new technology will be needed. If you’re thinking about making the switch to cloud voice, download the report for the 5 Key Considerations when Choosing Technology for Use with Office. 365.

Download this white paper to learn more about these 5 keys to align employees with your company culture and values;
1. Repeat, repeat, repeat and then repeat again
2. Share stories
3. Build it in
4. Reach everyone, leverage every possible channel
5. Leverage modern technology

Whether due to problems with hardware, attacks from external influences, viruses or a poorly written application can cause information to become corrupt. Download this white paper to learn the five keys to preventing data corruption.

The majority of companies have a difficult time deploying NAC across the enterprise. No existing NAC solution provides access control for all endpoints and operating systems – leaving vulnerable blind spots on the network. Some company leaders spend hundreds of thousands – even millions – of dollars on a NAC solution only to spend years trying to implement the technology. As a result, this can turn into a very frustrating process.
However, the solution intended to help you better secure and manage your network shouldn’t wind up creating greater risk and chaos. There are ways to set your network and your team up for success. Here are some tips to help you when considering deploying a NAC solution.

The one thing these powerful brands have in common? Data. The growth of data has brought us to the tipping point between brand and customer. Before the digital age, the biggest and best brands had just that – a brand, which THEY controlled. Now, a brand is powerful because of the data it collects and how it uses it to serve its customers. The value of data is only going to increase as we move from a handful of brands owning first-party data to a greater democratization of information. As a result, consumers will have much more control over their personal data and more companies will be able to generate their own first-party data. Once again, it’s time to look ahead to identify the trends and technologies that are most likely to survive the hype cycle and become the must-haves of the near future. Here we take all we learned over the past year and craft our strategies for the future. We explore the five predictions we believe marketers should be excited about and prepare for over the ne

Do you cringe at the thought of having to replace your enterprise software solution? Does it seem like a monumental undertaking, with a high risk of failure?
Knowledge is power. Learn from the experiences of other distributors who have been through the ERP selection process and not only lived to tell about it, but brought great benefit to their companies.

Replacing your point of sale (POS) software can be daunting, yet most Sporting Goods retailers recognize that innovation is important for delivering on evolving customer expectations. Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management.
Epicor has been a part of successful retail businesses for years. All that industry experience has given us insight into what not to do, like:
1. Not involving the head of the organization in the decision-making process
2. Skipping the planning phase because it “takes too much time”
3. Considering a technology partner that doesn’t truly understand your industry
4. Assuming you will do things exactly the same way you do things today
5. Selecting a vendor that lacks a long-term product vision
Read the white paper to learn more about how these mistakes can cause your organization to stumble—and how you can avoid them.

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove once coined the phrase, “Technology happens.” As true as Grove’s pat aphorism has become, it’s not always good news. Twenty years ago, no one ever got fired for buying IBM. In the heyday of customer relationship management (CRM), companies bought first and asked questions later. Nowadays, executives are being enlightened by the promise of big data technologies and the role data plays in the fact-based enterprise. Leaders in business and IT alike are waking up to the reality that – despite the hype around platforms and processing speeds – their companies have failed to established sustained processes and skills around data.

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove once coined the phrase, “Technology happens.” As true as Grove’s pat aphorism has become, it’s not always good news. Twenty years ago, no one ever got fired for buying IBM. In the heyday of customer relationship management (CRM), companies bought first and asked questions later.
Nowadays, executives are being enlightened by the promise of big data technologies and the role data plays in the fact-based enterprise. Leaders in business and IT alike are waking up to the reality that – despite the hype around platforms and processing speeds – their companies have failed to established sustained processes and skills around data.